EDGEWOOD, British Columbia — A Canadian federal agency said Friday it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a news release on Friday a professional marksman was used and it was done in a humane way.

Owners of the farm in the southern interior community of Edgewood, British Columbia have been fighting the order in the courts, arguing the surviving ostriches show no signs of illness and should be spared.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent a letter to the president of the CFIA urging him to reconsider destroying the birds. Separately, Dr. Mehmet Oz, former TV personality and current administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, offered

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